African economies are well positioned to benefit from rapidly accelerating technological change if they can harness the current open landscape for innovation.
East Africa is already a global leader...
Ecobank is inviting African fintech entrepreneurs to enter its Ecobank Fintech Challenge. Fintech is a portmanteau of financial technology that describes an emerging financial services sector in the...
Mr Alhassan Andani, Chief Executive of Stanbic Bank Ghana, says going cashlite may be a way out of the recent spate of robberies apparently fueled by the presence of cash. According to the President...
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is leading a government delegation on a study tour of the financial sector of Hong Kong and Singapore from February 9-14, 2018. The tour is part of moves by the...
Mobile telecommunication network, Vodafone Ghana, is set to headline this year’s 16th Ghana Banking Awards; representing a solid three-year run of association with the event. The awards is a...
News that JPMorgan Chase considered bidding for British payment company Worldpay signals that big US banks could be shifting back into acquisition mode after nearly a decade playing defense....
The Bank of Ghana has given authorization to GN Bank to introduce mobile money to the public. The BOG authorization paves the way for the bank to introduce this unique service which combines mobile...
Organisers of the Kenya Trade Expo Ghana 2017 have signed an agreement with Cellulant, a Pan-African FinTech Company. The agreement is part of an effort to encourage continued trade between the two...
Pan-African FinTech Company, Cellulant, has announced the signing of a partnership agreement with the Kenya Trade Expo Ghana 2017 during a ministerial visit at Cellulant offices in Nairobi, by H....
Shippers can now effect payment for services rendered to them in the clearance chain via mobile money, online as well as card payment and in-branch payment. This is being facilitated by WestBlue...
Ecobank has announced the finalists in the ‘Ecobank Fintech Challenge,’ a competition for African technology start-ups. The list includes 20 innovators from across the continent. The startups...
Some players in the telecom industry have indicated their readiness to handle the payment system of workers in the country through the mobile money platforms. They point out that with the right IT...
CEO of DreamOval, Derrydean Dadzie has said that Slydepay now has over 30,000 subscribers. According to him, Slydepay, which started as iWallet, was a University project which was started by one of...
Grime star Stomzy hit headlines earlier this week after an unexpected act of generosity. When Oxford University student Fiona Asiedu set up a crowdfunding campaign to raise £12,000 to go to Harvard,...
Mobile Money fraud and sustenance; Network companies must sit up All the Telcos in the country provide mobile money services The Mobile Money (Momo) service has undoubtedly come to help businesses...
A clear theme running through the meetings was the need to protect the growth momentum The world’s economic leaders and stakeholders came together at the 2017 IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings...
Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales is planning a news service that combines the work of professional journalists and volunteers. His goal is for Wikitribune to offer "factual and neutral" articles...
The integrated Financial and Commodities Ecosystem (FinComEco) on Monday launched an initiative aimed at driving improvements in food security, economic diversity and financial inclusion through a...
Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales is planning a news service that combines the work of professional journalists and volunteers. His goal is for Wikitribune to offer “factual and neutral”...
The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS), Archie Hesse has encouraged the public to patronise instant pay and mobile money services from their...
